[SOLR-841] DataImportHandler uses configuration without checking for existence of required attributes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: contrib - DataImportHandler

Environment

Tomcat 6, jdk 6u10

• Assignee: Shalin Shekhar Mangar
• Reporter: Michael Henson
• Created: 08/Nov/08 12:03
• Updated: 10/Nov/09 15:51
• Resolved: 11/Dec/08 09:40

Description

The DataImportHandler's XPathEntityProcessor throws a NullPointerException when it tries to process a row from an XML data source during a "full-import", both in the dataimport.jsp debugger and when started as a normal request. The null pointer is thrown when a <field> tag in the <fields><field ... /> ... </fields> section of data-config.xml has no "column" attribute.

Example:

<field name="entity_id" ... /> which should have been <field column="entity_id" .../>